Let’s say you own a home in the Seattle area that sports an unfinished basement. Do you: Leave it unfinished and use it as storage? Partially finish it and use it as a workshop? Finish it and use it as a rec room? Fully finish it with bedrooms and a bathroom? Something else? I’m curious…
Year: 2012
Mid-Week Open Thread (2012-12-12)
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Non-Distressed Median Up Less Than 5% From 2011
Let’s check up on how median home sale prices broken down by distress status: Non-distressed, bank-owned, and short sales. As of November, the non-distressed median price for King County single family home sales sits at $430,000, up 4.9% from a year earlier. November matched this year’s high point from June. A 4.9% increase is decent,…
Bank-Owned Sales Still Slim
Even as we get into the season when non-distressed sales tend to fall off and distressed sales typically make up a larger percentage of sales, the share of monthly closed sales that were bank-owned homes held flat again, coming in at 6.6 percent in November. I had been expecting this to increase in November, but…
Monday Open Thread (2012-12-10)
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